RFID CHIP MEMORY UTILITY
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1. A computer-enabled method for managing individual part data for commercial equipment, wherein the individual part is tagged with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, wherein the individual part data comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) importing the individual part data into a utility computer program;
(b) converting the imported individual part data to a delimited flat file using the utility computer program;
(c) sending the delimited flat file to an RFID read/write device; and
(d) writing the delimited flat file to the RFID tag using the RFID read/write device.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a computer-enabled method for writing data to the extended user memory of a Class 1 Generation 2 Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The disclosed method can also be used to format extracted maintenance data from the tag and compare it to the master database for validity.
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1. A computer-enabled method for managing individual part data for commercial equipment, wherein the individual part is tagged with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, wherein the individual part data comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) importing the individual part data into a utility computer program; (b) converting the imported individual part data to a delimited flat file using the utility computer program; (c) sending the delimited flat file to an RFID read/write device; and (d) writing the delimited flat file to the RFID tag using the RFID read/write device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13)
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9. A computer-enabled method for arranging data in a storage file for writing to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, wherein the data comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) checking for new records in the imported individual part data, wherein a message is sent to the user and steps (b) through (e) are omitted where there are no new records; (b) determining if the RFID tag contains enough available user memory to write a current record to the user memory, wherein a message is sent to the user and steps (c) through (e) are omitted where there is not enough available user memory; (c) parsing the data in the current record and writing that data to a storage file; (d) deleting the first record from the imported individual part data; and (e) repeating steps (b) through (d) until there are no more records or there is insufficient available user memory. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 14)
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15. An article of manufacture comprising an information storage medium having computer readable code disposed therein and useable with a computer processor to write and process data for exporting to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag, wherein the data comprises a plurality of records, each record comprising a plurality of fields, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) checking for new records in the imported individual part data, wherein a message is sent to the user and steps (b) through (e) are omitted where there are no new records; (b) determining if the RFID tag contains enough available user memory to write a current record to the user memory, wherein a message is sent to the user and steps (c) through (e) are omitted where there is not enough available user memory; (c) parsing the data in the current record and writing that data to a storage file; (d) deleting the first record from the imported individual part data; and (e) repeating steps (b) through (d) until there are no more records or there is insufficient available user memory. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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